On 03/08/2010 16:47, Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > >> Fasinating stuff. I read http://www.ntop.org/blog/?p=86 to mean that >> the newer intel NICs had similar capabilities to the Chelsio T3, is >> it just a lack of driver and control support in FreeBSD or did I >> misunderstand? > > The Intel cards I've looked at often have quite small tables -- > appropriate for directing packets for virtualization purposes (i.e., a > few MACs to specific CPUs), and fine for distributing using RSS, but > not able to direct tens of thousands of connections individually by > 4-tuple to specific queues. It wouldn't surprise me if newer > generations of Intel cards support similar features. > > If you're interested in high-performance packet capture to userspace, > this GSoC project might be interesting though: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/AlexandreFiveg/SOC2010AlexandreFive
I did notice this, I'll be paying attention to see what the results are. Vince > > Robert > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
